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A draft version of the 2005 British HIV Association (BHIVA) guidelines were formally introduced by BHIVA’s former president, Professor Brian Gazzard, chair of the guidelines’ writing committee, at the Eleventh ...

HIV-positive individuals with tuberculosis (TB) are generally receiving the standard of treatment recommended by current guidelines, according to a clinical audit presented to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the British ...

Noted researcher Dr. Tony Barnett of the London School of Economics believes the potential transmission of viral resistance could quickly limit the effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Africa. “Five-to ...

An BBC Radio 5 investigation has revealed that antiretrovirals supplied at discount prices to African countries were diverted, often before they reached Africa, and sold back to UK drug distributors ...

“HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition insecurity are becoming increasingly entwined in a vicious cycle, with food insecurity increasing the risk of exposure to HIV, and HIV/AIDS in turn increasing vulnerability ...

The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) should be supported by a federally funded corps of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and laboratory technicians modelled on President Kennedy’s influential Peace ...

have made very little, if any progress, in getting prevention and treatment to those groups of people most vulnerable to HIV/Aids - people who inject drugs, transgender people and men who have sex with men.

In the war on H.I.V., we have seen successes in some African nations and stubborn patterns of new infection in developed nations like the U.S. Around the world, there are obstacles to prevention and treatment. How will they be overcome?
The New York Times invited seven respondents ranging from the Director of UNAIDS to Sir Elton John to contribute to the debate.

Janssen has set the wholesale acquisition cost, (WAC) for a single 12-week course of Olysio at $66,360. Though this is in parity with current HCV PIs, the FPC believes that all HCV drugs are priced too high. The WAC price of Olysio represents only part of the cost of an anti-HCV regimen, including at least $18,000 in WAC costs of interferon and ribavirin, plus the additional cost of the NS3 Q80K polymorphism screening test recommended by the FDA for all patients before initiating Olysio therapy.

A new short film made by Edwin J Bernard and Nicholas Feustel for the HIV Justice Network explaining why 'treatment as prevention' is more than just pills and why universal access to voluntary HIV testing, treatment and care benefits everyone. Featuring, among others, Lord Fowler, Jane Anderson, Kevin Fenton, Brian Gazzard, Julio Montaner and other activists, clinicians and researchers who attended the recent IAPAC summit in London.

HIV diagnosis in Sweden also brings with it the risk of criminal prosecution if the legal responsibility, intended to prevent the spread of the virus, is not met.
But Sweden's use of criminal law in HIV cases, one of the most stringent in the world, is now being challenged as experts argue that people on effective anti-retroviral therapy have an extremely low risk of transmitting the disease.

Anti-criminalisation campaigner Matthew Weait reviews "Ruins", the documentary about the arrest, exposure and public vilification of a group of women as HIV risks in Greece in the run-up to the 2012 election. "Ruins" explores how the reimplementation of a historic legal regulation by the then Minister of Health, Andreas Loverdos, was used by the police to drag women from the streets on suspicion, but without proof, of being sex workers, to have them tested for HIV against their will in police stations.

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